Many years ago, when I made and launched model rockets as a kid, I speculated to my father how cool it would be to have a giant rocket that I could also make and fly in. Because he was an aerospace engineer, he told me that good toys don’t always scale to safe and sane means of human conveyance.

In any event, I hope this thing comes with its own automatically deployed recovery parachute.

I find toy drones simply amazing. I had to exercise extreme discipline not to buy myself one this Xmas. Literally; I almost stepped into a toy shop. Kept telling myself, I didn’t realize you were returning to childhood at this late date, Avi – don’t be silly.

I have been wondering how soon there will be quadcopters for ordinary citizens like me to fly in. I was surprised this was not being discussed. I see now there are efforts being made in this direction. It would be very difficult to generalize such flying vehicles. Traffic problems would be insurmountable, I think.

BradThomas

Hovering solar powered traffic lights, perhaps? Heck, let’s go full Star Wars and have orbital restaurants and recharging stations in the heavens! OK, I’m being silly, but I suppose it’s not a huge stretch to think that that sort of thing will arrive eventually (assuming Islam doesn’t kill off science first).